The Xtreme Bulls title for Asay comes four years after he suffered life-threatening injuries in a rodeo at St. Paul, Ore. He also sat out much of last season with a hip injury.

In 2008, he suffered a ruptured spleen, a partially torn right ear and broken rib at the rodeo in Oregon. Bleeding internally and unconscious, he was flown to a hospital in Portland where doctors put him in a medically-induced coma for two days.

Told that he would be out for eight months, Asay returned two months later.